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Rspaight · Postby **Rspaight** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:05 pm

Hahaha! I was right!

Ryan

Postby **lukpac** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:35 pm

NYT working for the terrorists next?

Bennett Cerf · Postby **Bennett Cerf** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:12 pm

Bennett Cerf · Postby **Bennett Cerf** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:32 am

Bennett Cerf · Postby **Bennett Cerf** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:11 am

All feminists are ugly bulldykes!

The article cited reveals the shocking story of how the National Women’s Studies Association Conference only allowed presentations by members of the National Women's Studies Association.

Rspaight · Postby **Rspaight** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:33 am

I guess Ann Coulter wasn't among the "intrepid few."

Ryan

CitizenDan · Postby **CitizenDan** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:07 pm

The sad thing is, Tinsley was probably trying his best to make Coulter attractive...

Xenu · Postby **Xenu** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:10 pm

CitizenDan wrote:The sad thing is, Tinsley was probably trying his best to make Coulter attractive...

I just figured out that that's supposed to be [i]hair[/]. I thought it was some Star Warsy kind of Sith hood.

Rspaight · Postby **Rspaight** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:23 pm

Xenu wrote:I just figured out that that's supposed to be hair. I thought it was some Star Warsy kind of Sith hood.

Darth Ludicrous.

Ryan

krabapple · Postby **krabapple** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:14 pm

She's a *man*, baby.

Bennett Cerf · Postby **Bennett Cerf** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:15 am

Bennett Cerf · Postby **Bennett Cerf** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:08 pm

Rspaight · Postby **Rspaight** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:25 pm

Because all immigrants are in gangs, ya know.

And never mind that primary English is practically 100% by the third generation.

And never mind that practically no one is actually proposing "automatic" citizenship.

And I don't exactly remember all the Europeans giving up their culture in favor of Native American customs when they came over. (I guess because they were too busy killing them and taking their land.)

Ryan

Bennett Cerf · Postby **Bennett Cerf** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:25 am

This is what Tinsley summarizes as "thanking 'Jesus Christ'":

...The summer after my freshman year, I quit swimming. I quit trying to fill the huge void in my soul with the meager accomplishments I obtained there. After quitting, this amazing sense of peace rushed over me and I noticed, after 15 years of sitting on the story-time rug, this teacher standing above me, trying to help me: God. I disregarded His guidance for years, and all the while, He sought to show me what shape fits into the cut-out in my soul.

This hole gapes as a wide-open trench when filled with swimming, with friends, with family, with dating, with shopping, with partying, with drinking, with anything but God. But His love fits. His love is "that something more" we all desire. It's unprejudiced, it's merciful, it's free, it's real, it's huge and it's everlasting. God's love is so great that he gave His only son up . . .

[Microphone goes dead here.]

...to an excruciating death on a cross so His blood would cover all our shortcomings and provide for us a way to heaven in accepting this grace.

This is why Christ died. John 10:10 says He died so we no longer have to reach in vain for the magnificence of the stars and find we always fall short, so we can have life -- and life to the fullest. I now desire not my own will, but the will of God for my life -- however crazy and extravagant, or seemingly mundane and uneventful that might be. Strangely enough, surrendering my own will for the will of God, giving up control, gave me peace, gave me a calm I can't even begin to express with words.

Four years ago, recognition as one of the valedictorians for our senior class would have been just another attempt to fit the circle into the square cut-out. But because my heart is so full of God's love, the honor of speaking today is just that: an honor. Without it, I would feel just as full and purposeful as I do at this moment.

And I can guarantee, 100 percent, no doubt in my mind, that as I choose to fill myself with God's love rather than with the things society tells me will satisfy me, I will find success, I will always retain a sense of self-worth. I will thrive whether I attend a prestigious university next fall and become a successful career man or woman or begin a life-long manager position at McDonald's.

Because the fact of the matter remains, man possesses an innate desire to take part in something greater than himself. That something is God's plan. And God's plan for each of our lives may not leave us with an impressive and extensive resume, but if we pursue His plan, He promises to fill us. Jeremiah 29:11 says, " 'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.' "

Trust me, this block fits.

Postby **lukpac** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:51 am

Funny. Tinsley puts "Jesus Christ" in quotes, yet according to that transcript, "Jesus" was never uttered.